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Having collected a lifetime of lost objects in order to deal with the loss of his fiancée, Anthony Peardew bequeaths his secret life's mission to his unsuspecting assistant, Laura, leaving her his house and all its lost treasures--and the responsibility to return each one to its owner.
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Hat & Beard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A long-vanished thing that lingers in your memory--whether you want it to or not? As much as we may treasure the stuff we own, perhaps just as significant are the objects we have, in one way or another, lost. What is it about these bygone objects? Why do they continue to haunt us long after they've vanished from our lives? In Lost Objects, editors Joshua Glenn and Rob Walker have gathered answers to those questions in the form of 50 true stories...
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"Once a black book government assassin known as Orphan X, Evan Smoak left the program, went deep underground, and reinvented himself as someone who will go anywhere, and risk everything to help the truly desperate who have nowhere else to turn. Since then, Evan has fought international crime syndicates and drug cartels, faced down the most powerful people in the world and even brought down a President. Struggling with an unexpected personal crisis,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this hilarious romantic-comedy caper. Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She's lost yet another job, her student loan debt won't stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and now her best friend has been accused of stealing a multimillion-dollar diamond necklace. To put it lightly, she's desperate for a break-that's...
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Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Mr. Brown is a very important tiger who works in a very important office all day long. His briefcase contains some very important things, so he keeps it by his side at all times. When Mr. Brown's briefcase is accidentally taken, he must get it back!
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Adele walks her little brother Simon home from school he loses one more thing at every stop: his drawing of a cat at the grocer's shop, his books at the park, his crayons at the art museum, and more. When Simon's older sister, Adele, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Adele makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything....
9) The finder
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The world is filled with wonders, lost objects--all real--all still out there, waiting to be found: the missing Fabergé eggs of the Romanov dynasty, worth millions; the last reel of Alfred Hitchcock's first film; Buddy Holly's iconic glasses; Muhammad Ali's Olympic gold medal. How can such cherished objects simply vanish? Where are they hiding? And who on earth might be compelled to uncover them? Prepare to meet Gaddy Rhodes, a brittle Interpol agent...
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"Shocking news reaches them--an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters--as well as heartache close to home--Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust. With the body count rising, the clock ticking...
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New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
"Each disparate object described in this book-a Caspar David Friedrich painting, a species of tiger, a villa in Rome, a Greek love poem, an island in the Pacific-shares a common fate: it no longer exists, except as the dead end of a paper trail. Recalling the works of W. G. Sebald, Bruce Chatwin, and Rebecca Solnit, An Inventory of Losses is a beautiful evocation of twelve specific treasures that have been lost to the world forever, and that, taken...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn't even really like poetry, and she has a secret career ambition that she suspects her English-professor mother will frown on. Then, just after discovering that it contains an important family secret, she loses the special volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry that was given to her...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Hearing impaired Junie Lagarde is gradually accepting her life without both her husband, whom she lost in a tragic plane accident over Mont Blanc, and her dog Leo, who ran way in the terrifying aftermath of the crash. But then Junie receives an unexpected call from France, and she's plunged into a nightmare she can't wake up from."--
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Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Milly loves to be silly! But when Mom's car keys go missing, Dad asks Milly to stop being silly and help search for the keys. Milly loves to be silly, but learns that helping others can be a whole different kind of fun."--
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"The pumpkin is missing! Can you help find it? From painting in the pumpkin patch to trick-or-treating in costumes, little ones will love turning the playful pages of this vibrant and delightful Halloween mystery as they uncover just where the missing pumpkin went." -- Page [4] cover.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Super Wings is the hit preschool series now airing on Universal Kids and Netflix! A young girl named Tess is excited go to the airport in her home town of Amsterdam, where she will be going on her first airplane ride. Jett brings her a carry-on suitcase, but trouble arises when it goes missing!"--Publisher.
20) The thingamajig
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A young elephant is on the case to find the miscellaneous objects their animal neighbors have lost in this playful and whimsical humdinger of a picture book. Little elephant’s parent can’t quite remember the name of the thing they’ve lost, but they need it back! While on the hunt for the misplaced thingamajig, little elephant discovers other animals are missing things as well. Snail’s hoo-pull-dee-pewp for staying safe from the sun has disappeared....
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